>>1668162Unracers will pay any amount of money to look like a down to earth "not a cyclist just a regular guy who happens to sometimes ride a bike, oh btw have I mentioned I don't have a car? don't really need one. they don't have those in amsterdam".
The reason they can't just get a $99 dumpster dive craiglist bike is that they need to make sure that everyone knows are rich unlike those poor losers who ride a bike by necessity
The reason they can't get a bike that doesn't suck is that someone might wonder why they're so slow if they were riding something that wasn't a complete piece of shit (but that's a $6000 piece of shit, not about the price though I'm just a regular normal guy)